Esther Morris Douty Books
Mr. Jefferson's Washington
Traces the history of Washington, D.C. until 1809, with emphasis on the people, schools, amusements, food, buildings, and way of life during the administration of Thomas Jefferson.
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The brave balloonists: America's first airmen
A brief history of balloon flights in the United States from the late eighteenth century until the flight of the first airplane in 1903.
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Hasty pudding and Barbary pirates
A biography of the American poet, minister, and lawyer whose diplomatic skill in foreign affairs served several presidents in the difficult post-Revolutionary period.
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Charlotte Forten, free Black teacher
A biography of the nineteenth-century black woman who taught newly-freed slaves.
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